Dr. R. Scott Clark: Three Things I Learned In 2015

Posted at The Heidelblog:

For me it has been an odd year. I spent a good bit of it on the road between San Diego, where I live and work and Nebraska, where family lives. That has produced a greater sense of dislocation than usual. Professionally, I am in the midst of several projects but none of them are finished so it there is more discontent than satisfaction. Nevertheless, in the midst of all the miles on the road and all the hours on at keyboard I think I learned three things in 2015.

Subjectivism Has Turned Nasty
Subjectivism is the position that holds that there is no objective truth, that whatever one wishes to be true is subjectively true, for that person. John Lennon said “Whatever gets you through the night” (1974). It was originally tended to signal a “live and let live” attitude but it seems clear that is not the attitude of the subjectivists now. If you doubt me, go to Yale, ask for a little tolerance and see if that does not create a riot complete with screaming, privileged children demanding immediate submission. Call it emotional Islam (the word Islam means “submission”).

Those angry Ivy-League elites do not like you and me. They never have but they used to understand that politeness required them to pretend. Hence the amusing quadrennial photos of them uncomfortably trying on Middle-American life for a few minutes, on the way to the airport to the next campaign stop. They do not like the United States of America—as least what they think they know about it. They do not know history and they do not care to know it. They do know their inner selves, however. They are more in touch with their inner lives than any previous generation and they are impatient with your insistence on facts, which they see only as stumbling blocks to utopia. They reject the every existence of objective reality but they have a vision of the future and that vision does not include dissent from the vision.

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